On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 17:42, Douglas Maxwell wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 11:12:33PM +0300, Eddy Petrisor wrote:
> > I made it with firewall builder, as I found it more suitable for myself
> > as a beginer. Everything works ok for the users behind the firewall
> > (private class addresses) but from the server I can't access the
> > internet, nor the internal network...
> > 
> The rule you want would have your firewall object in the source
> column, "Any" in the destination column, and "Any" or whatever
> services you want to allow out from your server/firewall in the
> service column, with Action set to "Accept", of course.
I had a hunch it was that and already done that...

> If you want
> to browse the 'net from the firewall itself, make sure to allow DNS
> queries out from that box (there is a predefined group for that in
> fwbuilder).
> 
What version of fwbuider do you use? I have 1.0.0-2, and I can't find
any DNS .... no, wait! dns tcp, right? what if I leave firewall:source
dest:any port:any accept , and the next, src:any  dest:fw port:any deny?

my fw is not a DNS, just a gateway..
> 
> Using the firewall object itself in the source column with "Any" in
> the destination column will allow traffic originating on your
> firewall to go anywhere, internal or out to the Internet. If you
> wanted to restrict traffic based on interface, you would have to use
> the interface object in the source column.
> 
again, what version? I can't find any interface object, but hosts (I got
the ideea, but they could have made it cleaerer, luckly they got the
ideea right by now, as I see on their site and you statement...)

> BTW, connections originating from the firewall traverse iptable's
> OUPUT chain.
> 
I see there are differences again, but I got the point.
(for me firewall-> iterfaces tab->policy attached to interface..)

> HTH,
> 
> Doug
> 
Thanks,

Eddy



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